Calamity Corinne

Corinne, a native New Yorker from the forgotten borough of Staten Island, was magna cum laude at SUNY New Paltz, earning her bachelor of arts in both radio/TV production and media management, with a minor in anthropology. After a few years working freelance in commercial production, most notably for The Montel Williams Show and Letnom Productions, she felt it was time to pursue fulfilling aspirations.
Also known by her emcee name, Calamity, she performs spoken word poetry and rhymes for the love of hip-hop music. She uses her verbal content to address social issues and her experiences as a Filipino-American.
She won the 2005 ImaginAsian TV’s PSA Contest for APA (Asian-Pacific-American) Heritage Month with her spoken word montage “Proud and Free,” dedicated to her deceased grandfather.
She was 1 of 9 participants who has completed a six-month production workshop in 2007, at Third World Newsreel, an alternative media arts organization and is currently in a one-yr intensive graduate level certificate program at the New School for Documentary Media Studies.
Her vision is to use documentary media to tell the stories of people who are on the periphery of mainstream media, specifically Filipino and Asian-Pacific-Islander-Americans (APIAs). These are the communities where she feels rooted, especially in New York City, where she volunteers as a performer and videographer at rallies and events for several APIA organizations, such as the Sulu Artists Network.
In May 2008, she will be finishing up "Excuse My Gangsta Ways," a documentary short about a Chinese-American woman who is a former gang member from the 1990s Lower East Side.
============================================================ "Once a b-boy, always a b-boy...once a b-girl, always a b-girl" - made this in 2001, in dedication to my breakin' crew back in the day, take a look and see if you can find me (hehe):
-Was super PA/AD behind-the-scenes for Koba's "Get Over" video:
Please check out the movie, The Motel. I am credited as one of the Casting Assistants! For more details, check this out:
http://www.myspace.com/themotelfilm
One of the media projects I've made, check this out:
Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan
Assistant Director for Kelly Tsai's "Weapons of Mass Creation":
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